Publications7

..Oxytocin is known to be inhibited by endogenous opioids at parturition, thus future research should consider the potential role of increased nociception at birth as a negative feedback to oxytocin release...

The effect of environment on plasma cortisol and beta-endorphin in the parturient pig and the involvement of endogenous opioids

..It has recently been shown that the rate of cerebral palsy increases as intrauterine size deviates up or down from an optimum about one standard deviation heavier than population mean weight-for-gestation...

..To assess the differences in fetal body compartments between fetuses with normal growth and those with reduced intrauterine growth, during the third trimester, through ultrasonographic determination of subcutaneous tissue thickness (SCTT)...